M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 41

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[41] rursus igitur eodem revertamur et quaeramus quae tanta vitia fuerint in unico filio qua re is patri displiceret. at perspicuum est nullum fuisse. pater igitur amens, qui odisset eum sine causa quem procrearat? at is quidem fuit omnium constantissimus. ergo illud iam perspicuum profecto est, si neque amens pater neque perditus filius fuerit, neque odi causam patri neque sceleris filio fuisse.

Pro S. Roscio Amerino. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1908.

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Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.)

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For Sextus Roscius of Ameria Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 1. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1903.) — 41 focus

[41] Let us return again to the same point, and ask what vices existed in this his only son of such importance as to make him incur the displeasure of his father. But it is notorious he had no vices. His father then was mad to bate him whom he had begotten, without any cause. But he was the most reasonable and sensible of men. This, then, is evident, that, if the father was not crazy, nor his son profligate, the father had no cause for displeasure, nor the son for crime.

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Notes on Pro S. Roscio Amerino (Select Orations of Cicero (Allen and Greenough's Edition). Greenough, James Bradstreet; Kittredge, George Lyman, editors. Boston, London: Ginn & Company, 1897.) focus

ego , opposed to Roscio.

diem : fem.; § 97 , a (73); B. 53; G. 64; H.135(123); H.-B. 101.

praefinita , fixed in advance, as the limit ( finio).

patronum , i.e. Sulla see note on

libertum , p. 6, l. 10 .

conferre , throw the responsibility for.

egerit , will effect, fut. perf. for fut.: § 516 , C, N. (307, c, R.) ; G. 244; H. 540 (473); cf. H.-B. 490.

imprudente : cf. p. 5, l. 28 .

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 41

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